To some, the proliferation of dating tech has heralded a kind of “dating apocalypse,” as Nancy Jo Sales coined it in 2015. Rather than obliterating the dating scene as we know it, tech has opened up a bevy of new options to sate our various tastes. And while hookup culture may seem like an exhausting, unwanted guest who forever overextends his welcome, let’s remember we invited him over in the first place.